Improvement in shutter bower and fastener



T. B. ROGERS, Jr. Shutter Bower and Pastener.'

No; 203,945. Patented May 21,1878.

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' ATTORNEYS.

N. PETERS, PNOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D G.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS B. ROGERS, JR., OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND I PETER COOPER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHUTTER B OWER AND FASTENER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 203,945, dated May 21, 1878; application filed March 19, 1878.

To all whom it may concern: 7 The outer end of the ear 0 is apertured to Be it known that I, THOMAS E. ROGERS, receive an eye formed on the end of the rod E. Jr., of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and The end of the said rod may be bent at a State of New York, have invented a new and right angle, and inserted in the aperture of Improved Adjuster and Fastener forWindowthe ear and riveted, as shown in Fig. 3. Blinds, &c., of which the following is a speci- The rod E passes through an aperture, d, fication: in the stud a, and is bent up at its free end, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my imforming a convenient handle for operating theproved adjuster and fastener. Fig. 2 is a dedevice. tail sectional view of the binding-screw. Fig. A thumb-screw, e, passes into the top of the 3 is a perspective view of a modified form of stud, and is capable of clamping the rod E a portion of the device. down upon the upper face of the plate D.

The object of my invention is to provide a By means of this arrangement the blind may simple and inexpensive device for adjusting be adjusted and fastened in any desired posiand fastening blinds, shutters, &c.; and it tion.

consists of a plain rod jointed to an ear that A catch, G, is pivoted between ears f that is attached to the blind near its hinges, and project from a plate, 9, that is attached to the fastened in a pivotal stud by a binding lower rail of the shutter. This catch is supscrew and plate attached to the window-sill ported by a shoulder in a horizontal position,

for receiving the said rod. so that when the blind is closed it engages Referring to the drawing, A is the window the rod E and prevents the blind from openframe; B, the window-sill; and O is a blind ing. or shutter hinged to the window-frame. I am aware that it is not new to combine a To the window-sill B is secured a plate, D, lifting and locking rod with the. pivot upon which is apertured centrally to receive the which a transom is journaled; but pivotal stud a, and is offset to make room for What I claim isthe head of said stud between the plate and The apertured pivotal stud a. in sill-plate the window-sill. D, the ear-plate b c,the catch G, and the rod To the bottom rail of the blind 0, near the E, combined, as and for the. purpose specified. hinges of the blind, a plate, I), is secured, THOMAS B. ROGERS, JR. from which an ear, 0, projects toward the win- Witnesses: (low-casing, forming, with the bottom rail, an GEO. M. HOPKINS; angle of about forty-five degrees. C. SEDGWIOK. 

